{"id":945,"date":"2009-12-21T11:43:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=945"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:43:59","slug":"bolton-planners-face-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Bolton planners face redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton Council has confirmed that up to  20 staff from its planning department face redundancy as the planning  authority grapples with making savings of more than \u00a31m, prompted by a  significant fall in income from planning and building control  applications.<\/p>\n<p>During 2006-07, Bolton dealt with 2,369 planning  applications. So far this financial year there have been 1,440. Over the  same period, building regulations applications have fallen from 19,036  to 13,444. Land searches have also dropped from 9,678 to 5,218. Staff  are being consulted about the cuts, a final decision on which is  expected next February.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2009\/dec09\/2009-12-week-3\/171209_6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2009\/dec09\/2009-12-week-3\/171209_6\">Link  to Planning Portal News Item<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton Council has confirmed that up to 20 staff from its planning department face redundancy as the planning authority grapples with making savings of more than \u00a31m, prompted by a significant fall in income from planning and building control applications. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}